Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Lothar Scholz]

pobrien at orbtech.com (Patrick K. O'Brien) wrote in message news:<m2k7e78j5s.fsf at localhost.localdomain>...

> Actually, we don't have to clone everything about the interface.  I'm
> using wxPython, so the interface is pretty and more easily configured.
> But some people actually like the minibuffer, so we'll need to support
> something like it and something less ugly.  Heck, I'm actually running
> three different versions of the interface now, and I only wrote the
> code this week (minus the almost two year's worth of code in PyCrust).
> 
> > There are only a handful of features that are normally the reason to
> > keep this as your primary editor. For me its the window handling C-X
> > 1, the way to prefix commands with a repeat command, the macro
> > recording and a the autoindentation with TAB.
> 
> Except everyone will likely disagree about what the handful of
> features are.  ;-) In any case, I'm targeting the bare minimum to
> start.
> 
> > To make clear, i'm using XEMACS 8 hours a day for years now. But
> > it's absolutely losing ground compared to modern editors. And i
> > don't think that extensibility in the emacs sense is really
> > necessary today or a plus, because people want out of the box
> > solutions that are specialized to their domain.
> 
> What would you like to see in a modern version?
> 

Look at: 

http://www.eagle-software.com/

This people had a lot of good ideas. Also the codeguide people at
www.codeguide.com (????) - a java ide - have implemented codetips/code 
insight in the way i like them.